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John in La 03-17-2012 05:48:53 66.157.27.101 Report to Moderator	I agree welding man. It is right there in black and white but some of these young gung hoe cops could care less. I have seen some really off the wall tickets over the years and your day in court 3 states from your house usually does not matter. Most will just pay the ticket and be done with it and the cops know that. Carry a copy of the regs in your truck. Hope your tractor looks like it belongs in a show. The thing I can not understand is.......... Pulling a tractor behind a pickup could look like a bussiness even if you are a personal hobby. BUT........ Pulling a race car with sponsors names plastered all over it behind a RV seems to be OK. I am really into the safety side of the rules. I think the feds need to enforce the safety rules to the letter. Maybe even re-write some of the laws to devide the safety rules more so the exemptions are clearer. But trying to add personal use into all our paper work would be just crazy. [Reply]   [No Email]
730d se 03-17-2012 07:15:58 68.189.186.87 Report to Moderator	Re: REQUIREMENTS FOR DRIVING IN THE USA in reply to John in La, 03-17-2012 05:48:53   John, You hit the nails on the heads in my view. The rules are set up to protect all of us. As typical with politics, it turns in to a money machine and safety is not at the top, no matter what they try to say otherwise. It is dangerous for a guy who seldom drives the rig, not used to the weight, stopping distances, etc., to go rolling off somewhere to "pick up a tractor". Safety has nothing to do with whether it is his play toy, if he makes money on it, or if he is actually a famrer. If he runs through a traffic signal, runs over the vehicle in front of him, blows a tire and runs across lanes, the ugly result is the same. I say we either set the rules for all, or drop them completely and everyone take their chances on the road. We all have that thought that it "will not happen to us." Many people with that thought have been proven wrong, some of them are not alive to argue the point. [Reply]  [No Email]
rustyfarmall 03-17-2012 08:45:35 216.248.71.224 Report to Moderator	Re: REQUIREMENTS FOR DRIVING IN THE USA in reply to 730d se, 03-17-2012 07:15:58   Quoting Removed, click Modern View to see I agree 100%. Lets apply that same kind of thinking to the RVers also. [Reply]  [No Email]